I can certainly vouch for those Fly wallets. I have 4 of em filled with flies!! LOL Seriously though, they do a great job of storing flies with the wool inside them.

In terms of leaders, I tie the 30-40# mono (3-4' with a clear tip flyline, 4-6' for regular flyline) to the fly line and then about 12" of some sort of tie-able wire. I'm a fan of American Fishing Wire products. I've had good luck with their titanium wire and am currently about 4 months into experimenting with their Wire Bleeding Leaders which are pre-tied and include a snap lok to make fly changes a lot easier. I've had good luck with them so far. However, I did have one break on me just in the process of casting. Hoping that was a fluke, but we'll see. I did try another coated wire that kinked WAY too easily. Can't think of the name right now. All I remember is that it was green in color. LOL

Congrats on winning the flyrod!! I'm hoping to get out your way in the Spring again. If so, I'll give you a shout and we can try gettin some more fishing in.


Jay